|
|
|
|
||
|
|
 |
 |
|
Howdy one and all. It’s been a long time since
we’ve done a newsletter hasn’t it. This year has been a slower
than normal year of getting major projects done to report on but
we’ll bring you up to date on what’s happened in the last few
months or so.
First we’ve got to let you know that we are
planning on doing our annual Day after Thanksgiving dinner again
this year. Those interested in joining us for $15 per
person please let us know
in the next
couple of weeks so we can have
plenty of good food on hand. We’ll have turkey, honey
glazed ham, stuffing, mashed spuds and gravy, sweet potatoes,
veggies, desserts, ore dervies and probably stuff I don’t know
about yet. We’ll serve hopefully between 2 and 3 p.m.
Friday November 23rd. Should you wish
to stay here a day or two we have all cabins available and plenty
of RV parking at this time. Back in February we had Simon,
a movie director, come out from England to do a short movie
trailer for a movie he wanted to do called Bruno & Earlene go to
Las Vegas. With that trailer he was able to secure funding
to come back with his cast and crew of about 18 in the first part
of September for 8 days to do the whole thing. They stayed
in all of our cabins and Red Dog Lil and I made about 500
meals for them while Walt took care of their refreshments like
water and lemonade and such. They were a great bunch
to have here for the whole time. We hope his movie is
successful enough to come back to Gold Point for a sequel. When Red Dog Lil gets home
tonight and proof reads this I’ll have here tell you what it was
all about. She has a copy of the script and has read the
whole story. Ok, Red Dog is home now so I’ll
let her tell you about the movie. Go ahead Red. In reading the script I find it
to be a touching story and here are the highlights. A lot
more happened in some of the other scenes but are not necessary
to go into for the Bruno & Earlene story: Earlene runs away from her
boyfriend. Bruno & Earlene meet at Venice Beach Boardwalk
skate bowl. They strike up a conversation. He takes her to
the place where he is “couch surfing” in someone’s home that has
gone on vacation. The woman comes home and catches them but
they get away. They go to Earlene’s motel room. Next
morning Bruno leaves, Earlene follows him and a friend to a big
mansion in the middle of nowhere. It belongs to a doctor
that studies chromosomes and he takes pictures to document
“people like Bruno” and pays them money to do it. Earlene
takes Bruno away from the mansion and they break into another
cabin for the night that is empty of its owners. They
decide to take a road trip to Vegas. Bruno has a fixation
on the Eiffel Tower in Paris and has always wanted to see it.
Earlene says she can’t get him to the real Paris but she can get
him to Vegas to see the replica of the one there. Many
miles later they end up in a motel in Beatty where Bruno steals a
room key. There they run into Billy who becomes their
escape from the cops. Earlene had stolen her boyfriend’s
car when she left and the cops were checking it out when they
come out of the motel room the next morning. Billy steals a
truck and off they go. They end up on a dirt road, the
truck breaks down and they are in the middle of nowhere.
They ditch the truck and start walking. They end up in
(Gold Point) what they thought was a ghost town from a distance.
They are about to meet up with the “characters” of the town who
ended up there after running away from other lives. They go
into the saloon and find some of the residents. Two
Scottish guys, the bartender and eventually the cook and the lady
Sheriff steps up. The Sheriff gives them a key to a cabin
for the night. There it comes out just what is different
about Bruno. Bruno was supposed to be a twin but the
sister’s egg merged with his egg and he ended up being a boy with
a uterus, an ovary and a fallopian tube and grew up very confused
not knowing if he was a boy or a girl. Billy turns out to
be gay and forms a relationship with one of the Scottish guys.
Earlene and Bruno have a disagreement, he would like to stay in
the town because he feels at home there but Earlene decides to
take off on her own and admits she is pregnant. She get a
ride from the other Scottish guy. Bruno decides to go back
to the clinic that Earlene dragged him out of to go ahead and
have the pictures taken so he can get money to help Earlene.
He hitches a ride with some tourists that had gotten lost and
wound up in the same town. They drop him off and he thumbs
a ride with another vehicle to get to the clinic. Earlene
has second thoughts and has the Scottish guy take her back to the
town where she finds that Bruno has taken off as well.
Earlene figures out that Bruno has gone back to the clinic after
she talks to the other residents and her and Billy decide to take
off and go after Bruno. They get to the clinic and Earlene
once again pulls Bruno out of there. They finally get to
Vegas along with Billy and his Scottish boyfriend. Bruno
gets to see the Eiffel Tower. Earlene has her baby.
Undetermined if Bruno changes his lifestyle from male to female
but it sounds like it from the ending in the script. Thanks Red Dog. We hope
this is a success for Simon and that we will get to see it in the
not so far future. The first week of October we
had a Rotary club rally here of about 36 guests. They
stayed here about a week. Each day they left Gold Point and
explored different areas on all points of the compass. The following week we had
around 20 guests on their annual fall ride of the My Two Wheels
off road club visit us for 4 days. They will again be back
in April for their annual spring ride. During the time
they were here we had two doctors from Georgia come out to do a
photo shoot. They flew into Vegas where they picked up 4
lovely models. They arrived Friday in Gold Point around 3
in the afternoon and left around 1 p.m. the next day. They
knew the riders were going to be here but the riders didn’t know
the girls were going to be here. So it was quite a surprise
to all of them when the girls started modeling all around our
buildings inside and out wearing nothing but a smile and their
boots. If the wives of the riders find out about this they
may not be allowed to play in Gold Point anymore so please
don’t tell them. Lol. The photographers plan on
coming back sometime next spring. Yeah!!!!!! Will you
be lucky enough to be here at that time?? This last
weekend we had 24 geology and paleontologists from northern
California come for two nights and a day. They climbed Mt.
Dunfee East of Gold Point looking for fossils. Matt, the
professor thought that he would bring a different class back
again next year. About a month ago we had
another group of students stop by for about an hour and we had
one of them identify an old bone we have in a case in the saloon
as an old mammoth bone about 8 to 10,000 years old. It was
here when we bought the Senators home back in 1981 so we don’t
know where it was found. Two weeks ago we had Ken the
piano repairman and Jim the electrical wizard came back for a few
days. Ken retuned the piano and put
some more glue resin on the pins and it sounds really great.
Jim, Ken and their friend George tried to fix the instruments but
couldn’t get them to work on this trip. They found some
serious problems with the tiny diaphragms on them. Jim will
be doing some research and hopefully next time they come back for
a visit next year we’ll have a fully working piano. Until
then we are very pleased with listening to the piano only right
now. Jim was also nice enough to
bring us two ostrich eggs. He showed us how to drill a
small hole on one end and blow out the liquid. We then had
scrambled ostrich eggs for breakfast. We scrambled the
other one yesterday for another group of guests. They taste
the same as regular eggs. Now Red Dog Lil has two eggs to
use to paint on or whatever she wants to with them. By the way Red
Dog Lil, real name Sandy, is reluctantly enjoying her fame having
a hurricane named after her. If anyone reading this is
going to be effected by her we hope you make it through the storm
with little or no harm. You can always write to her and
complain if you wish. Maybe even send us a photo of her
wrath. I just read the ticker tape this morning and found
that the name “Sandy” will be retired as a name used for
hurricanes. Ironically it is the 77th name to be
retired. Sheriff Stones lucky number. Maybe it’s time
to buy a lottery ticket. Stranger has
been able to spend a little more time working on Shangri-la.
He’s cleaned out the back and moved in the Jacuzzi tub. The
bedroom now has carpet and he has started putting up the wood
waistcoat. He hopes to be back in a few weeks to work on it
some more. We have talked
about having an End of the World party here in December but Red
Dog and I have chosen to go down to spend Christmas time with my
parents and her mom. If the world really does end on
December 21st we wanted to be with mommies and daddy.
Now another chapter in the ongoing series “Tales
from the not so old West” May 16, 1908 Rhyolite Bullfrog
Miner “Sister Nevada Camps. Hornsilver…Hornsilver is now
less than a month old, but already it has a population closely
hugging the thousand mark. There are several grocery
stores, a hardware store and a drug store doing a land office
business. Seven salons are assuaging the desert thirst.
Every block in the center of the city has its restaurant and
lodging house, while several feed yards are transacting business
at the lower end of the Main street. Already-and this seems
incredible-a telephone system has been in operation for nearly
two weeks and a railroad spur of the T & G. has been surveyed and
preparations for grading are under way, while the Clark road
people are planning to also build to the camp. Negotiations
are under way for the bringing in of electric light and power.
A franchise for a water system is also being considered by the
board of county commissioners. Hornsilver is
not a boom cam. It is upon a permanent basis. Instead
of booming a townsite to stimulate prospecting in the
neighborhood, Hornsilver got its producing mines first and the
considered the townsite proposition.” May 16th
1908 Hornsilver Herald Vol. 1 no. 2 “new business
projected. Clayton & Weaver have bought lot 5, block 9,
Main street and will put a substantial business house thereon.
P.J. Flanner has purchased lot 5 block 10, for mercantile
purposes. Gilroy & McGavin have purchased lots 4 and 8 on
Main street, and will erect a building for a saloon.” “Finishing New
Buildings. Walter & Brown are putting the finishing touches
to the cozy building next to Beckman & Brick’s, in which they
will open a chop house. A. Ruf will have completed his
building on Third avenue, near Main street by today, which is
intended for a meat market. Charles Stevens’ building for
the Northern saloon is about finished. James Fowlie, of the
Montana bar, will have completed the large frame
structure…containing the gaming adjunct to his bar. “Great Western
Market. Andrew (Ruf) has opened a market on Third avenue,
where fresh meats, vegetables and fruits will be received daily.
Sausages will be a specialty.” “Pioneer Drug Store. W.
H. Hyatt of Goldfield will put in a stock of drugs, etc. in the
building occupied by the Barnes Brothers.” “Hobbs and
Frisbie. An interest in the Frisbie lease on the Hornsilver
King ground, at Hornsilver, was purchased last week by John H.
Hobbs…Goldfield Tribune” “What the papers
are printing about Hornsilver. Birth of the new camp.
One of the best early stories on Hornsilver was written by W. M.
Gotwaldet for the Goldfield News, published two weeks ago….The
site is a semicircular basin, surrounded on three sides by the
Crescent range. Two days before our visit the first lot had
been sold in the new town and the first tent pitched. On
the day of our trip there were fourteen tents in the morning and
eighteen tents and two frame building when we left. At noon
a wagon freighted with lumber and another laden with culinary
utensils and supplies drew up in front of a vacant lot.
When we returned from a visit to the mines several hours later we
found a substantial hotel building with dinner served in the
dining room. Sunday morning two saloons started business in
structures consisting of a floor and a bar, together with the
necessary stock. By the middle of the afternoon the
refreshment parlors were snugly under roof and even had ice with
which to regale their customers… As of this
writing, Thursday afternoon, the camp of Hornsilver has already
been assured a railroad, a telephone line and water system.
It is a bustling little city with six saloons, four restaurants,
a barber shop, four lodging houses, three stores, two automobile
lines and one stage line, a feed yard, livery stable and what
not. At the mature age of five days the city of Hornsilver
made application for a post office and a precinct is being
established, while the mining district has already fixed its
metes and bounds and selected its officials. Within a
couple of weeks the town will have attained a growth of possibly
a thousand men, women and children…”
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO
ALL happy trails and sunsets Sheriff Stone and/or Red Dog Lil |
